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they're ignoring federal law. they're supposed to have military voter registration on federal bases and they're just not doing it. and it's leading to what we think are going to be record lows in military rovoter turnou by as great as 70% dips in key states like virginia and ohio. >> if i were a cynic, if i were a cynic i would say this is because polls show 60% of military voters vote republican. now, would i be too cynical? >> you know, who knows? but what really matters is it doesn't matter how they vote, it matters that they vote. and this is clearly frustrating their right, their opportunity, to be able to cast a ballot this election year. and the pentagon frankly seems not to care very much. the pentagon's response is, well, let's wait until after the election and see how things turn out. and after the election it's simply too late. we've got to make their that service members can cast a ballot. that's why congress gave pentagon marching orders two years ago, now three years ago and the pentagon is just refu
they're ignoring federal law. they're supposed to have military voter registration on federal bases and they're just not doing it. and it's leading to what we think are going to be record lows in military rovoter turnou by as great as 70% dips in key states like virginia and ohio. >> if i were a cynic, if i were a cynic i would say this is because polls show 60% of military voters vote republican. now, would i be too cynical? >> you know, who knows? but what really matters is it...
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but they're a huge part of the president's health care law and we're going to show you after the break how they work. >>> then later on, the tuition is just too damn high, america. why does it keep going up, and up, and up? answers in the next half-hour. want to try to crack it? yeah, that's the way to do it! now we need a little bit more... a little bit more vanilla? this is great! [ male announcer ] at humana, we believe there's never been a better time to share your passions... because the results... are you having fun doing this? yeah. that's a very nice cake! [ male announcer ] well, you can't beat them. [ giggles ] ohh! you got something huh? whoa... [ male announcer ] humana understands the value of spending time together that's a lot of work getting that one in! let's go see the birdies. [ male announcer ] one on one, sharing what you know. let's do it grandpa. that's why humana agents will sit down with you, to listen and understand what's important to you. it's how we help you choose the right humana medicare plan for you. because when your medicare is taken care of, you can
but they're a huge part of the president's health care law and we're going to show you after the break how they work. >>> then later on, the tuition is just too damn high, america. why does it keep going up, and up, and up? answers in the next half-hour. want to try to crack it? yeah, that's the way to do it! now we need a little bit more... a little bit more vanilla? this is great! [ male announcer ] at humana, we believe there's never been a better time to share your passions......
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>> the law is the law. the law is that $460 billion is going to have to be cut out of defense. they should be planning for that now, because those cuts are supposed to begin on the first of january. those are facts. facts are stubborn things. since when do we disobey laws because we anticipate changes in the law? i have never heard of such a thing and i think it is outrageous to make that assumption because that's not how government's supposed to work. >> let me turn you, if i could, to the employment report of this morning, senator. i don't know whether you were able to hear the previous conversation -- >> yes. >> -- but jack welch tweeted out this morning that he basically doesn't believe these numbers, the 7.8% unemployment rate and he alleged that those numbers were manipulated by the administration. we just had a republican congressman on who believes the same thing. what's your opinion? what do you make of this number, and given what you see in your own backyard, does it ring true? >> well, i think that it's pretty significant that for the first time in nearly four years
>> the law is the law. the law is that $460 billion is going to have to be cut out of defense. they should be planning for that now, because those cuts are supposed to begin on the first of january. those are facts. facts are stubborn things. since when do we disobey laws because we anticipate changes in the law? i have never heard of such a thing and i think it is outrageous to make that assumption because that's not how government's supposed to work. >> let me turn you, if i...
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enterprise law in china requires a kfc china or walmart china or cisco china or hauwei to allow for the existence of a communist party committee within the organization. hauwei, like these other companies, allows for that existence. the communist party committee doesn't have any interaction with or influence on our business operations. >> but it's alleged by our investigators that the company did not cooperate at all with the investigation. is that true? and if so, why not? if there's nothing to hide, if the company did nothing wrong, why not cooperate? >> oh, that's a great point. the company cooperated immensely. we hosted the staff in washington in december and then in china in february and members and staff in hong kong in may, with our ceo. we responded to multiple ent interrogatories, delivered reams and reams of paper. while we were with transparency and good faith, we got a book-long press release that launched the investigation last november. >> they go into quite a lot of detail in the report itself, and a lot of it, hauwei, they say, refusing to provide information that was r
enterprise law in china requires a kfc china or walmart china or cisco china or hauwei to allow for the existence of a communist party committee within the organization. hauwei, like these other companies, allows for that existence. the communist party committee doesn't have any interaction with or influence on our business operations. >> but it's alleged by our investigators that the company did not cooperate at all with the investigation. is that true? and if so, why not? if there's...
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some republicans say the white house is bending labor laws for votes. senator john mccain is with us live. we'll talk about that and more with the last time presidential candidate on the gop side and the age old debate wall street bankers are they overpaid and are more cuts ahead. we got that and more top of the hour, jobs. >> sounds great. not often a finance minister is laughed at when tlifrg a speech but that's exactly what happened to spain's finance minister when he told a crowd in london that his country doesn't need a bailout. he was speaking to students at london school of economics and they chuckled at that. nevertheless the euro moving above 1.35 versus u.s. dollar. boris, good to see you. what do you make of the situation with the euro, with merkel going to greece next week, walking in to the lion's den. messy day. >> yes. but i think ultimately what you have to take away from this week is when draghi came out and said don't mess with me. basically there's a coalescing of ideas in the eurozone now around the ont and esm where most of the euro
some republicans say the white house is bending labor laws for votes. senator john mccain is with us live. we'll talk about that and more with the last time presidential candidate on the gop side and the age old debate wall street bankers are they overpaid and are more cuts ahead. we got that and more top of the hour, jobs. >> sounds great. not often a finance minister is laughed at when tlifrg a speech but that's exactly what happened to spain's finance minister when he told a crowd in...
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penalty is part of the president's health care law. how much impact will this really have on hoopspitals? joining us, vice president for clinical affairs at the nyu langone medical center. andrew, thank you for joining us. scary story out of the "washington post" today that brought it to our attention here. which if hospitals have a lot of people coming back for the same treatment in a short period of time, they're going to get whacked by the government. how severe a problem is this? >> it is a big problem nationally and right now we're talking about the cost control provisions of health care reform. so everything that you've been hearing about in the news, the general news anyway, has been about health insurance reform. this is now how are we going to pay for the health insurance reform and an easy target is to take it out of the hospitals because medicare pays hospitals a lot of money. every hospital grapples with hospital readmissions. there's a lot of controversy around penalizing hospitals if their patients, for example, don't com
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under the law, the government could recover triple damages. this is a $570 million suit against wells fargo. we're following it. we'll teep you posted. back to you. >> just off the lows, scott, thank you very much. we're heading toward the close, otherwise, with about 30 minutes left. the dow down 100 points at this hour. when we come back, we look at the health of wall street. new york state comptroller on the looming -- whether the looming fiscal cliff and increasing regulation are threatening wall street's comeback these days. plus, speaking of which, nearly half of all wall streeters are expecting a bigger bonus this year. will they get it in and more importantly, do they deserve it? that debate is coming up. and from bull market speed bump to chaos. breaking out at a bull fight in colombia. we're just wondering, is this scene a preview of what may be coming to our stock market? tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 this morning, i'm going to trade in hong kong. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 after that, it's on to germany. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 then tonight, i'm tra
under the law, the government could recover triple damages. this is a $570 million suit against wells fargo. we're following it. we'll teep you posted. back to you. >> just off the lows, scott, thank you very much. we're heading toward the close, otherwise, with about 30 minutes left. the dow down 100 points at this hour. when we come back, we look at the health of wall street. new york state comptroller on the looming -- whether the looming fiscal cliff and increasing regulation are...
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the labor department is asking defense company ceos to delay notifying employees, even though the law dictates that they must. and today lockheed martin says it won't issue layoff notices before the election as it had planned to do. . it said it receivered assurances from the white house that the money would not be cut in january. how is that possible? aren't the costs mandatory if we hit the fiscal cliff? well, yes, but the administration could prioritize based on any criteria it chooses. perhaps it will make sure funds go to ensure that thousands of lockheed employees in northern virginia, a key swing state won't lose their jobs. but contract in states like georgia or alabama, well, those assurances may not come. that's just my observation. before we go, that will do it for the "closing bell" today. the market, of course, higher at the close but off of the best levels of the afternoon. hope you'll follow me on twitter and
the labor department is asking defense company ceos to delay notifying employees, even though the law dictates that they must. and today lockheed martin says it won't issue layoff notices before the election as it had planned to do. . it said it receivered assurances from the white house that the money would not be cut in january. how is that possible? aren't the costs mandatory if we hit the fiscal cliff? well, yes, but the administration could prioritize based on any criteria it chooses....
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tell me why you surrendered your law license in illinois and why did your wife surrender her license in illinois. let us know why. you're running for the presidency. you don't have a private life anymore. it's gone. you made that decision when you said i'm running for president. what i'm saying is, we know one thing about mitt romney. he's got 25 years of solid business experience, most of which has been very successful. and he's a decent man. by the way i'll say it again. i'm going to feel very good when this man is president in january because he's going to make, i believe he'll bite the bullet, nigel. i really believe this guy -- >> nigel, you were there for gordon brown. what was that like for you? >> well, he was a man, it was awful really, not only -- >> scars. >> i want this guy on the show every time. >> not only did he sell 400 metric tons of gold at an average price of $258 an ounce, we can all make bad calls. what he did he announced to the markets the 17 days on which he was going to sell the gold and the quantities. i mean, we just had a moron in charge. it was disastrou
tell me why you surrendered your law license in illinois and why did your wife surrender her license in illinois. let us know why. you're running for the presidency. you don't have a private life anymore. it's gone. you made that decision when you said i'm running for president. what i'm saying is, we know one thing about mitt romney. he's got 25 years of solid business experience, most of which has been very successful. and he's a decent man. by the way i'll say it again. i'm going to feel...
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the reality is, it isn't new laws. it's using the executive branch to legislate by fear or by threat. you don't need a law. in effect the epa is doing stuff all over the place. the nlra is doing stuff that's not sanctioned by any law. it's a political decision and it's extraordinarily negative to our country and our economy. >> "the journal" did you read the lead editorial today how razor thin the obama care vote really was. we know scott brown they had to do reconciliation after he won. gym webb fairly won, al franken sort of harvested the boats to beat norm coleman. those made a difference. evan bayh and jim weber saying we wish we hadn't taken 20% of the economy with no republican votes and legislated the most unpopular bill in history that's still unpopular and really poisoned the whole political atmosphere, at the same time you weren't trying to add jobs. it was almost an impediment to adding jobs. >> using reconciliation process on prapts the most important piece of legislation in the last 20 years, it is basical
the reality is, it isn't new laws. it's using the executive branch to legislate by fear or by threat. you don't need a law. in effect the epa is doing stuff all over the place. the nlra is doing stuff that's not sanctioned by any law. it's a political decision and it's extraordinarily negative to our country and our economy. >> "the journal" did you read the lead editorial today how razor thin the obama care vote really was. we know scott brown they had to do reconciliation...
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but that's already the law. and that doesn't help the millions of people out there with pre-existing conditions. there's a reason why governor romney set up the plan that he did in massachusetts. it wasn't a government takeover of health care. it was the largest expansion of private insurance. but what it does say is that insurers, you have to take everybody. now, that also means that you've got more customers. but when governor romney says that he'll replace it with something but can't detail how it will be, in fact, replaced and the reason he set up the system he did in massachusetts is because there isn't a better way of dealing with pre-existing conditions. it just reminds me of, you know, he says he's going to close deductions and loopholes for his tax plan. that's how it's going to be paid for. we don't know the details. he says that he's going to replace dodd/frank, wall street reform. we don't know exactly which ones. he won't tell us. he now says he's going to replace obama care and assure us all the go
but that's already the law. and that doesn't help the millions of people out there with pre-existing conditions. there's a reason why governor romney set up the plan that he did in massachusetts. it wasn't a government takeover of health care. it was the largest expansion of private insurance. but what it does say is that insurers, you have to take everybody. now, that also means that you've got more customers. but when governor romney says that he'll replace it with something but can't detail...
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then they had to go to an equity law firm. this is encouraging to me. i would think this actual bailout is one that says, we are now past, the pig is much further along. you don't want a python swallowing a pig, but it's going to follow it when it is finished. >> words to live by, jim. words to live by. >> i think about that often, actually. >> we just listened to an incredible hour of television on "squawk box" with zell talking about what he's seen in the economy, talking more about corporate i.t. upgrade cycles. here's what zell said not too long ago. >> nobody wants to make commitment to be on tomorrow. we run a company that does a lot of corporate enterprising installations. and one of their triggers is when the enterprise projects start getting delayed, we are heading for a recession. and that's exactly what you're looking at right now. >> when the enterprise project starts getting delayed, we are heading for a recession. that collides with the calls we are seeing regarding cisco right now. jim, channel checks going on? >> cisco, morgan stanley pu
then they had to go to an equity law firm. this is encouraging to me. i would think this actual bailout is one that says, we are now past, the pig is much further along. you don't want a python swallowing a pig, but it's going to follow it when it is finished. >> words to live by, jim. words to live by. >> i think about that often, actually. >> we just listened to an incredible hour of television on "squawk box" with zell talking about what he's seen in the economy,...
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>> there's a national law whatever. >> that is stupid. you're right. >> that other hotel owners have to allow a new hotel to be built. they're old and they've been there for years. you can't build a hotel there unless you kiss a lot of feet and do a lot of whatever. >> that is wrong. >> john is our guest host today. we'll have more insights from him as we continue, john taylor. >>> joe has stocks to watch ahead of this, the open on wall street and september jobs report. "squawk" will be back after this. >>> do you like "squawk box"? do you like facebook? well, you'll love "squawk box" on facebook. next week, we launch our official facebook page, "like" the show page and get updates, interviews, pictures and more. "squawk box" on facebook, kicks off monday. [ male announcer ] at scottrade, you won't just find us online, you'll also find us in person, with dedicated support teams at over 500 branches nationwide. so when you call or visit, you can ask for a name you know. because personal service starts with a real person. [ rodger ] at scot
>> there's a national law whatever. >> that is stupid. you're right. >> that other hotel owners have to allow a new hotel to be built. they're old and they've been there for years. you can't build a hotel there unless you kiss a lot of feet and do a lot of whatever. >> that is wrong. >> john is our guest host today. we'll have more insights from him as we continue, john taylor. >>> joe has stocks to watch ahead of this, the open on wall street and...
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laws. it is likely to become fodder for the u.s. presidential campaign, and there was a big piece -- >> on "60 minutes" and "wall street journal" and chavez won. >> apparently this is just a rumor, the bls the entire of bureau labor statistics from here was flown down to venezuela to monitor the election. >> the chicago guys were thrown down. >> ba-dum-boom. let's get to the story, the venezuelan president hugo chavez as joe was just saying -- >> 54-45. >> comfortable election victory that could extend his rule to 20 years. the next election isn't officially for six years but you had tens of thousands of ecstatic supporters flooding the streets around the presidential palace in downtown caracas, pumped their fists in the air and started shouting chavez's name. enrique capriles, he was beat by more than nine points. it will extend a wave of nationalizations and continue his support for left wing allies. we've heard how important this is for cuba, he has billions at his fingertips because of the oil produced there. this is the country
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computer systems should not include any components made by these companies and they may have violated some laws. how important is this, dave? >> it's important. chairman rogers was an important component of the piece we did early this month that was on chinese cyber espionage. it focused on huawei. a company discovered the chinese were in their system, nortel. they went out of business. some claim it's because of huawei. chairman rogers is trying to raise the alarm on this. i can only tell you from firsthand experience, so many ceos of fortunate 500 companies who would not come on the program that we did a number of months ago because they fear for their business in china have admitted to me face to face that their firewalls had been breached by the chinese, that they'd been informed of that by the fbi. and so by doing this, chairman rogers simply is able to raise a larger awareness of it. as for the huawei allegation, we'll see. we haven't seen the report yet and the specifics. >> the reason why the issue has been treated with -- this has been going on over the course of a decade at least. it'
computer systems should not include any components made by these companies and they may have violated some laws. how important is this, dave? >> it's important. chairman rogers was an important component of the piece we did early this month that was on chinese cyber espionage. it focused on huawei. a company discovered the chinese were in their system, nortel. they went out of business. some claim it's because of huawei. chairman rogers is trying to raise the alarm on this. i can only...
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to have a charter school law. we've only got about -- >> charter school law that says what in. >> that charter schools are allowed. we have ten states where you can't have a charter school, you can only have public schools, the standard. >> but the money we throw with at education, with what we spend if you did it the right way. >> we spend way more than anybody else. one of my sideline activities is running a charter school system out of arizona, we just opened our first school in washington, d.c., school name is basis. we've got two other top high schools in the u.s. in a ten-year-old charter school system. it's possible to do it. we don't hire teachers, we hire content experts for the classroom, we put some degree of tension in the classroom. we have international expectations. kids, we were all kids once, kids jump as high as you ask them to jump, and the basic problem in our education system is we set the bar so deangelo they don't have to work to get over it. >> put tension in the classroom? >> you pay teach
to have a charter school law. we've only got about -- >> charter school law that says what in. >> that charter schools are allowed. we have ten states where you can't have a charter school, you can only have public schools, the standard. >> but the money we throw with at education, with what we spend if you did it the right way. >> we spend way more than anybody else. one of my sideline activities is running a charter school system out of arizona, we just opened our...
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that it is really about public employee unions because the private unions are protected by federal law, but what this question is on the ballot is basically saying that the rights of collective bargaining apply to all public employees, so let's take it one step further. what it really means is when it comes to michigan and the state government's ability to say, look, foodservice in the schools will be handled by private companies, bus transportation handled by private companies, what you're looking at is 2 to $3 billion in additional costs onto the state government in michigan calling collective bargaining a state protected right for state union employees, and so number one, this is a huge issue for the state of michigan. it is big for the governor. i think that if you look at what's happened in wisconsin, you're going to see hopefully the same level of success over in michigan. people understand that while we're -- >> we're a little short on time. i hate to cut you off here. there is going to be interesting questions at this week's debate and i would like to have you back next week to
that it is really about public employee unions because the private unions are protected by federal law, but what this question is on the ballot is basically saying that the rights of collective bargaining apply to all public employees, so let's take it one step further. what it really means is when it comes to michigan and the state government's ability to say, look, foodservice in the schools will be handled by private companies, bus transportation handled by private companies, what you're...
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. >> is there a china law in this country? a china lobby saying stay away from them because we need them so badly? >> i don't know. >> a lot of companies need to sell to china. the last thing they want to do, i don't think they want to hear about a trade war, given they own so many kentucky fried chickens in china. >> there's a trillion dollars in treasury bonds pretty strong lobbying. >> that's true. that's true. >> i think you're right. the main thing about china is it is more complicated that it seems. >> finally, a couple interesting notes on banks, david, the makenzie report saying the business model will provide sustainable profits and there's a poll of bankser who believe their numbers will get better, not worse. >> optimism never dies when it comes to people's pay. you look around them to see everything falling down but i was a star. i served to get paid well. we talked a lot about it. i think when you talk to the executives who run many of the global institutions, it is coming down in a true way. it's a seminole chang
. >> is there a china law in this country? a china lobby saying stay away from them because we need them so badly? >> i don't know. >> a lot of companies need to sell to china. the last thing they want to do, i don't think they want to hear about a trade war, given they own so many kentucky fried chickens in china. >> there's a trillion dollars in treasury bonds pretty strong lobbying. >> that's true. that's true. >> i think you're right. the main thing about...